abutment needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abutment is the highest-scoring word from abutment, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in abutment — and it is abutment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abutment produces exactly one seven-letter word: nutmeat. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling abutment turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mutant. For points, the strongest plays are batmen and numbat — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abutment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, the strongest play is maneb — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in abutment produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, aunt, beam, bean, beat, bent, and butt. For points, the strongest plays are beam, bema, mabe, and numb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling abutment turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, bam, ban, bat, bet, and bum. For points, the strongest plays are bam and bum — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abutment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, be, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, em, ma, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in abutment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abutment and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
abutment is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for abutment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
abutment is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abutment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is abutment, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from abutment earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in abutment produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 12 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.